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14295B Chapter 12
Chapter 12 of the Hospital Corpsman Manual
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What term applies to any person who is receiving diagnostic, therapeutic, and or supportive care for a condition that is not managed by surgical, orthopedic, psychiatric or maternity related therapy? | medical patient |
| What are the two major categories of surgical patients? | emergency and elective |
| What type of surgery is surgery that needs to be done but can be scheduled at a time beneficial to both the patient and the provider? | Elective surgery |
| What four phases does the surgery patient go through? | Preoperative, operative, recovery, and postoperative |
| What phase starts as soon as the patient is taken into the Operating Room? | operative phase |
| What is defined as the loss of sensation that makes a person insensible to pain, with or without loss of consciousness? | anesthesia |
| What anesthesia is used to desensitize a small area of the body for a very short time period? | topical anesthetic |
| What anesthesia consists of the subcutaneous infiltration of a small area of the body with a desensitizing agent? | local block |
| What type of anesthesia consists of injecting the agent into the region of a nerve trunk or other large nerve branches? | Nerve block |
| What anesthesia involves injecting the agent into the subarachnoid space of the spinal canal between the third and forth lumbar and first sacral space of the spinal column? | spinal anesthesia |
| What type of anesthesia consists of injecting the agent into the epidural space of the spinal canal at any level of the spinal column? | epidural block |
| What type of anesthesia consists of injecting the agent into the dural sac at the third and fourth lumbar? | saddle block |
| What form of anesthesia blocks all impulses to and from the perineal area of the body? | saddle block |
| What method of anesthetic effect or loss of sensation range from the umbilicus to the toes? | Caudal block |
| During what stage of general anesthesia does the patient experience dizziness, a sense of unreality, and a lessening sensitivity to pain, also increased sense of hearing? | Stage one or the induction stage |
| During what stage of general anesthesia does the patient show evidence of physiological stimulation and the patient may respond violently to very little stimulation? | Stage two or the excitement stage |
| During what stage of general anesthesia is the operation performed? | Stage 3 or the surgical/operative stage |
| What is the fourth stage of general anesthesia? | the toxic or danger stage |
| In a short arm cast, what position is the wrist in? | Neutral position |
| For a long arm cast, what position is the elbow in? | 90 degree position |
| For a short leg cast, what position is the ankle in? | neutral 90 degree position |
| What are the two methods of removing a cast? | soaking in warm vinegar/water solution until it dissolves or by cutting |
| For proper cane fitting the elbow should be flexed how? | 15 to 30 degrees |
| What are the five stages of death? | Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance |
| Hot water bottles should not exceed what temperature? | 125 Degrees Fahrenheit, and should be covered |
| What is the disinfection and sterilization of patient supplies and equipment during hospitalization called? | concurrent cleaning |
| What is the disinfection and sterilization of patient supplies and equipment after the patient is discharged? | terminal cleaning |
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